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How to Evaluate the IT Companies You are Considering to Support Your Business by Frank Ballatore

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As more and more companies choose to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, they are also increasingly considering out sourcing the hosting and management of their data center and cloud infrastructures to a third party. Benefits range from leveraging the economies of scale that service providers enjoy, to the dedicated specialists that private IT companies may not be able to justify hiring.

Yet the world of service providers can be a complex one to the uninitiated, especially as cloud computing is changing that world significantly. I wrote this post – the first in a three- part series – to help shed some light on the types of providers that exist today and how they are evolving.